Xerxes
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Re: What\'s the scariest thing that happened to your hair?
Your hair started to smoke??!! /images/graemlins/confused.gif My goodness, and I thought my recent hair experience was bad enough! My hair was always nice until I moved from Miami to LA! The change in atmosphere or a run in with two too many stylists in LA who were poorly trained in giving relaxers tortured my hair. Basically LA is dry and arid, whileas Miami is sultry and humid. So when my hair started to look dry and lifeless I thought after my body adjusted to the move and after using more moisturizers and deep conditioners, everything would be fine. That didn't happen! Over the course of 2 years, my hair kept growing, but in a patch on the nape of my neck, for some reason kept breaking off and eventually I had a gap in the back of my head! One side was almost 5 inches longer than the other! So I knew that it wasn't just the dryness because that would affect all of my scalp the same, so it really came down to these stylists putting my mild relaxer on my already straightened hair in the back and weakening it. So I cut off almost half of my relaxed hair thinking that would suffice, but still, damage was present and the only advice my last third stylist could give me was to get a short Halle Berry type pixie cut and regrow my hair. The short ear length cut I had then was too much for me, so I ended up saying the heck with relaxers! Everyone's trying to convince me to start pressing my hair like everyone else out here, but I work out too much to keep my scalp from getting wet. I wish I had stayed on the east coast or just worn braids, but the good thing is that I now get to embrace my authentic self.
<crossing my fingers and praying that I look like Lauryn Hill when this is all done> LOL
Your hair started to smoke??!! /images/graemlins/confused.gif My goodness, and I thought my recent hair experience was bad enough! My hair was always nice until I moved from Miami to LA! The change in atmosphere or a run in with two too many stylists in LA who were poorly trained in giving relaxers tortured my hair. Basically LA is dry and arid, whileas Miami is sultry and humid. So when my hair started to look dry and lifeless I thought after my body adjusted to the move and after using more moisturizers and deep conditioners, everything would be fine. That didn't happen! Over the course of 2 years, my hair kept growing, but in a patch on the nape of my neck, for some reason kept breaking off and eventually I had a gap in the back of my head! One side was almost 5 inches longer than the other! So I knew that it wasn't just the dryness because that would affect all of my scalp the same, so it really came down to these stylists putting my mild relaxer on my already straightened hair in the back and weakening it. So I cut off almost half of my relaxed hair thinking that would suffice, but still, damage was present and the only advice my last third stylist could give me was to get a short Halle Berry type pixie cut and regrow my hair. The short ear length cut I had then was too much for me, so I ended up saying the heck with relaxers! Everyone's trying to convince me to start pressing my hair like everyone else out here, but I work out too much to keep my scalp from getting wet. I wish I had stayed on the east coast or just worn braids, but the good thing is that I now get to embrace my authentic self.
<crossing my fingers and praying that I look like Lauryn Hill when this is all done> LOL
